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I would like to share my experience to see if my case is out of ordinary.

I am a beneficiary of EB-3 green card application. The I-140/I-485 were filed by my employer in 2016 and I-140 was approved.

Since then I had an interview at the local office. I was questioned for more than 1 hour and at the conclusion of the interview I was told to wait for reply. More than six (6) months passed, but I did not receive any reply. Last month I called USCIS to inquire about status of my case.

Last week, somebody from USCIS case to my employer to check about me. Today, early in the morning, I was visited by USCIS representatives at my home. They questioned me for almost 1 hour and left without offering any explanation for their actions.

After that, they again visited my employer, demanding all documents regarding me.

Donald Trump took America a frightening and dangerous step closer to dictatorship on February 5 when he accused the Democrats of "treason" for not applauding during his State of the Union speech.

For more on this, see Republican columnist Jennifer Rubin's February 6 Washington Post column:
Trump's lapdogs now accept the labeling of opponents as 'treasonous'

(Sorry, i don't have a link. Please go to Google to access.)

For the immigration implications of Trump's remark, and others like it which lump both political opponents and non-white immigrants together as people who do not "love our country", see my own February 6 ilw.com blog on Trump's latest step toward bringing about a fascist America.

Meanwhile, don't forget to get your copy of Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury" before the books are all sold out. If even 10 percent of the book (as reported in the media - I haven't read it) is true, Trump has to be the most unfit president in the nation's entire history.

Of course, this is a country which still values the right to free speech (for the president at least), and no one will challenge Trump's right to defend himself - in this case, by tweeting that he is really a "genius".

Somehow, this is completely new information. No one seems to have realized this fundamental fact before, least of all the people who have been working most closely with him in the White House.

The question of Trump's fitness to serve as president now goes far beyond issues of racism and authoritarianism in his immigration agenda.

If the president were a Democrat, with one fiftieth of this amount of evidence, Trump's supporters would be screaming for impeachment and criminal prosecution, and we would be seeing nothing else on Fox News 24 hours a day.

For immigration advocates, as well as for everyone who cares about the well-being and financial future of ordinary Americans who have been betrayed big time by Trump's new tax law and his deregulation mania, there isn't a lot to laugh about in Donald Trump's America these days.

But one thing that is not without its funny side is to read the latest report about two of America's most notorious white supremacist bigots, Trump and Steve Bannon, going after each other and calling each other crazy.

They are both right, at least in the sense that they share an irrational hatred of non-white immigrants and both support measures which would limit most or all future legal immigration to applicants from Europe or other predominantly white countries, in a throwback to the openly racist "national origins", Europeans-only immigration law of 1924.

Trump now says that Bannon, whom he formerly praised effusively and who was the chief architect of Trump's original version of the Muslim Ban and much of the rest of his anti-immigrant agenda, has "lost his mind."

Let the rest of us get out of the way and let the two of them fight it out over each other's sanity.

BATTLE OF THE PUNDITS: RAPPAPORT V. LITHWICK – NOLAN SAYS “If the Supreme Court allows the courts to continue to do this to Trump, they will interfere with any national security decision he makes that impacts a country with a large Muslim population, regardless of the circumstances.” – DAHLIA SAYS “Thousands of people will be harmed for no reason other than Donald Trump dislikes Muslim countries and crafted a nearly legal theory to achieve his ban after two abject failures.” – YOU DECIDE!

For the latest from Joe Scarborough about the growing doubts concerning the president's mental health, a matter of the most urgent concern to immigrants, Americans, and everyone in the world to does not want to see a nuclear war with North Korea, see:

And for a timely warning of how Trump's latest unhinged Twitter attack on Muslims (see my November 30 ilw.com "Blogging" comment on this topic) could be one more step on the road to fascism in America, see, Alternet.org (November 30):

With today's shocking announcements of indictments against three of Donald Trump's campaign aides (and a guilty plea by one of them), Trump even though he may not have been directly involved, is effectively finished as president. No matter how often he may shout "Crooked Hillary!", "Crooked Hillary!", no one is going to believe in his honesty or trustworthiness any more (if anyone ever did). It is now only a matter of time before Trump will have to resign, unless he is sooner impeached by a Democratic Congress to come (with the help, no doubt, of at least some Republicans).

Even if there are no more charges (which there very likely could be), Trump's administration has now been exposed as a sewer of corruption, lies and bad faith.

No one would claim that Democratic former US Secretary of Labor (in the Clinton administration) Robert Reich is an objective, non-partisan analyst of current affairs. Having said that, he is an astute political observer and has a well earned reputation for not being afraid to speak out honestly and directly.

In his latest (October 13) alternet.org column, Reich writes about a conversation with a former Republican Congressman friend (name not given) concerning the friend's views on what Republican leaders are saying about the nation's president, Donald Trump.

Reich quotes the former GOP Congressman in part as follows:

"I'm just glad I'm not there anymore. Trump's not just a moron. He's a despicable human being. And he's getting crazier. Paranoid. Unhinged. Everyone knows it."

If this is an accurate description of what leaders in Trump's own party are now saying about him, what does this augur for the future of immigration policy in this administration, not to mention the future of America and the world?

Stories like this could also explain why Trump is moving toward fascism in America by threatening to "revoke" the free speech rights of NBC and other media which publish negative or unflattering stories about him.

Robert Reich is far from being the only commentator in America who is now voicing concerns, not only over the president's commitment to democracy and the fundamental values of a free society, but also about Trump's mental health.

For more on Trump's mental health issues, see also Salon.com's October 11 article about an interview with Dr. Bandy Lee, professor of law and psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine and editor of the new book:

The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President

Could Donald Trump's own mental health challenges eventually derail the white Supremacist RAISE Act and the rest his anti-immigrant agenda?

Any US president, no matter how powerful, needs Congressional friends and allies in order to put through is agenda.

Latest reports indicate that Trump's constant fighting with his natural supporters in his own party, such as, in the latest example, Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) may be causing the president to run out of friends.

One report quotes Fox News host Neil Cavuto, a normally friendly commentator, as questioning Trump's own sanity because of his tendency to pick fights with his own national allies. Cavuto warns that Trump may be soon be running out of friends.

If Trump's possible loss of Congressional support due to his alleged mental health problems leads to abandoning his Europeans only immigration policies, such as the RAISE Act, Muslim ban orders and mass arrest and deportation agenda targeting mainly Hispanic, Black and Asian immigrants, that would unquestionably be a good thing.

But what if Trump's mental health issues, as evidenced by his unrelenting and hostile attacks as candidate and president against Latino, Muslim and other non-white immigrants, led to his bigoted whites-only immigration agenda in the first place?

Is this not a question that not only immigrants, but more and more Americans, will be asking themselves as time goes on?

The latest publication dealing with Trump's mental health is a book called:

The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President

The book is due to appear on October 3. Judging from its title, since I haven't yet seen the book, it should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand what is behind the president's white supremacist immigration policies and the danger he poses to America's democracy and the peace (if not the continued existence) of the world as we know it.

It may be a relief to Latino, Muslim and other non-white immigrants that Trump is evidently taking time off from demonizining and persecuting them in order to pick an insane fight with American citizens, i.e. NFL football players, over the national anthem.

As Donald Trump continues with his policies of racial and religious discrimination against minority immigrants by threatening the future of nearly 800,000 mainly Latino DACA recipients and preparing to defend his Muslim ban before the Supreme Court (along with, inter alia, threatening to destroy North Korea - and possibly all of humanity - in his UN speech) concern among mental health professionals about the president's fitness to continue in office is becoming more and more evident.

As the heartrending stories of drowned children (and at least one police officer) start coming out of Texas, while Hurricane Harvey moves over to Louisiana on the 12th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in that state, one can only marvel at the utter inhumanity, the sheer disregard for the survival of this planet, in the Trump administration's campaign to erase even the words "climate change" from the government's websites and official documents.

I am not aware of any reputable scientist who would disregard or deny the connection between global warming and the increasingly severe and dangerous storms that are battering the United States and many other parts of the world.

But this callous disregard of human life and welfare is matched in the storm of actions against vulnerable and defenseless immigrants that the Trump regime is taking, with its countless human tragedies, split up families, dashed hopes and broken human lives, as America's immigration climate also changes and inundates the hopes and future in America of Latino, Asian, and Muslim immigrants, and all others who don't fit in with the Eurocentric immigration objectives of Trump and his top immigration advisers.

Mr Trump wants to dismantle DACA because it was instigated under President Obama's watch. For the past six months, Mr. Trump is bullying vulnerable populations wether americans or immigrants.He wants to tare off families, destroy the lives of hard working people, because he just wants to destroy before Mr Muller destroys him by the findings of the russian collusion. Divisiveness and chaos are not what America is about! America is/was a safe haven for those who seek refuge, those who ask for justice and receive it. America is about living in tranquility for the common good. When will this nightmare end? Communication and diplomatie are no more.

In view of the enormous influence that, by all accounts, Bannon has had on Trump's immigration policies, could this mean that we may now have a "kinder', gentler", less racist immigration agenda in the Trump administration; or could it mean that Trump has now gone so far over in the direction of the neo-nazi white supremacists whom he so pointedly refused to single out for condemnation over Charlottesville that even Bannon is too "liberal" for the president on immigration and race relations?

As Trump himself might say, we will have to see what happens.

Or, could Bannon's exit, hopefully for everyone who cares about preserving America's tradition of welcoming immigrants of all ethnic backgrounds, religions and skin colors, which has been in place for the past 50 years and which Trump and Bannon have been trying to destroy, be a prelude to Trump's own resignation as president?